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The Birds of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and World Heritage Site, Palawan Province, Philippines, Including Accounts of Breeding Seabird Population Trends ARNE E FORKTAIL 32 (2016): 72–85 The birds of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and World Heritage Site, Palawan province, Philippines, including accounts of breeding seabird population trends ARNE E. JENSEN & ANGELIQUE SONGCO Data on the seabird population of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Palawan province, Philippines, which lies in the Sulu Sea, date back to 1911. However, regular surveys and monitoring began only in 1997 and have resulted in a wealth of new information. An annotated list of the 106 recorded species is presented and changes in the population of the seven breeding seabird species and the factors that influence such changes are discussed. From an estimated 13,500 breeding seabirds in 1981, the population decreased to less than a third of that number in 2003, with the only Philippine population of Masked Booby Sula dactylatra being extirpated in 1995. Thanks to strict enforcement of a no-visitor policy from 1997, the population increased to around 32,300 birds in 2013. The park is the only known breeding area of the subspecies worcesteri of Black Noddy Anous minutus. It hosts the largest breeding colonies of Brown Booby Sula leucogaster, Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii and Brown Noddy A. stolidus, and the second-largest populations of Red-footed Booby Sula sula and Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus, in the Philippine archipelago. Data on other breeding sites of these species in the archipelago are included. Two new species for the Philippines, 14 new species for Palawan province and four globally threatened species, including the Critically Endangered Christmas Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi, together with first Philippine records of Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava tschutschensis and M. f. macronyx are described. Since 1981 there has been a reduction in land area of over 40%, but the previously barren islets are now vegetated and this has encouraged expansion of tree-nesting Red-footed Booby and Black Noddy colonies to the detriment of Brown Booby. Temperature anomalies caused by El Niño and La Niña events appear to affect the breeding cycle of seabirds. INTRODUCTION provinces and other countries, together with the introduction of cyanide and dynamite "shing techniques. Commercial scuba !e uninhabited Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park lies in the Sulu diving started in 1979 and within a few years the remote reefs were Sea, 170 km south-east of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan province, transformed into a priority destination for local and international Philippines. !e area was designated a protected national marine scuba divers (Arquiza & White 1999, Songco 2003, Dygico 2006). park in 1988 and as a natural marine park in 2006. !e protected Today the dive season is restricted to three months (mid-March to area was expanded to include the Jessie Beazley Reef in 2010. It was mid-June), whilst permits and entrance fees provide the necessary declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993 and in 1999 was funds to manage and patrol the park. included in the Ramsar list of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar 2016, UNESCO 2016). There have been few studies of birds in the Sulu Sea and STUDY AREA published data on the avifauna of the atolls and islets are largely based on the collection of specimen or sight records from a century The 97,000 ha Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, lying between ago. Early collectors included Richard McGregor in January 1903 8.761°N 119.844°E and 9.052°N 119.817°E, includes the North and Dean Worcester, who visited the Tubbataha Reefs in June 1911 and South Atolls and the Jessie Beazley Reef (Figure 1). !e total and provided the "rst description of its seabird colony (McGregor exposed area of these formations at high tide is about 14,000 m$. 1904, Worcester 1911). No further ornithological surveys were Bird Islet, previously known as North Islet (Plate 1), located undertaken in this area until a survey by the Haribon Foundation in the North Atoll (8.931°N 119.997°E), had a circumference of for Conservation of Natural Resources in 1981 (Kennedy 1982). Figure 1. Location of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Sulu Sea. Source: More recent studies have included surveys of the population of Arquiza & White (1999). Brown Booby Sula leucogaster (NRMC 1983, Cruz & White 1989, Arquiza & White 1999) and full surveys of the breeding N bird population in 1991, 1993 and 1995 (Heegaard & Jensen 1992, JESSIE BEAZLEY REEF Magsalay & Toledo 1993, Manamtam 1996). Between 1997 and 0 2.5 5.0 2004, WWF-Philippines made several inventories of the seabird 9.00° N km populations (Sabater 2002, Sabater in litt. 2004). From 2004 until the present day the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park management Bird Islet office has carried out regular monitoring and made quarterly NORTH ATOLL inventories of the seabirds. Comprehensive surveys, assisted by Plaza independent expert ornithologists, have mainly taken place in May each year (Jensen 2004a, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) and are ongoing; this study covers the period up to the end of 2013. Ranger Station E#ective conservation management involving the restriction of Amos Rock access and use of resources from the park started only in 1997. Prior Black Rock Lagoon to that, between the early 1960s and early 1990s, local "shermen Sand SOUTH ATOLL Reef !at/ slope from the Cagayancillo islands, Palawan, stayed for up to a month Reef edge and on the islets to "sh and collect sea-turtles, seabirds, and their eggs, South Islet steep slope Lighthouse mainly between April and July. By the early 1980s, increasing use 120.00° E of motorboats had brought larger numbers of "shermen from other Forktail 32 (2016) Birds of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and World Heritage Site, Palawan province, Philippines 73 overall seabird population is determined by a combination of direct counts of adults, immature and juvenile birds, and square counts of ground-nesting species including nests, eggs, pulli and juveniles. In addition, in-#ight counts, mainly of boobies and frigatebirds, are made between 16h30 and 18h30 (dusk), when most birds congregate and start roosting. Equipment used includes binoculars, spotting- scopes, GPS and digital camera. Distance population monitoring is normally carried out in the morning on a monthly basis from a boat cruising 50–70 m parallel to the shoreline, at both Bird and South Islets, and includes two or three independent estimated counts of all visible seabirds. "e averaged results are used to determine the population variation TERI AQUINO trends throughout the year. A total of 91 distance population counts Plate 1. Aerial photograph of Bird Islet (formerly named North Islet), 25 April 2012. were carried out between April 2004 and May 2013. Of the 66 inventories made on behalf of various organisations between 1981 and November 2013, 13 were between January and March, 31 from April to June, 9 from July to September and 13 from October to December. Most survey e%ort (69%) was put in between 2005 and 2013 and in this period the inventories were made between 13 April and 10 June, mostly from 5 to 10 May. All datasets from 1981 to 2013 were used in the analysis of seabird population trends, and the dataset from June 1981 (Kennedy 1982), taken in late a&ernoon when most of the populations were present, was used as the baseline to determine population trends. "e aggregate counts of populations present on the islets during the day and the birds returning in the late a&ernoon were used to determine the total breeding population of Red-footed Booby Sula TERI AQUINO Plate 2. Aerial photograph of South Islet, 5 September 2005. sula and Brown Booby. Data from the evening in-#ight counts of returning Red-footed and Brown Booby were averaged for the period 548 m measured along the vegetation line and average high-tide 2004 to 2013; for Red-footed Booby, 59.3% of the adult population mark, with a land area of 10,936 m! in 2013 (Jensen 2013). "e was away during the day, and 37.3% for Brown Booby. Appropriate dominant natural vegetation is beach-forest, although about 65% adjustments were made to daytime counts made prior to 2004 of the islet is an open barren area with an in#ux of grasses. "is (Magsalay 1993, Manamtam 1996, Sabater 2002, in litt. 2004) to area, known as the Plaza, is the historical breeding site of ground- facilitate the evaluation of changes to the two species’s populations. nesting seabirds. Analysis of the in-#ight averages using ANOVA (two-factor without "e circumference of the tiny South Islet, area 2,860 m!, in the replication) revealed that the di%erence between years was not South Atoll (8.749°N 119.820°E) is 230 m (Jensen 2013). It was statistically signi$cant (p = 0.024281) within species and age groups. originally part of a large sandbar but a lighthouse, protected by a "us, extrapolation of in-#ight percentages from 2004 to 2013 to the concrete seawall, was constructed in 1978 (Plate 2). Construction of daytime data of earlier years when no in-#ight counts were made was the seawall led to the growth of beach-forest vegetation, including done without compromising the integrity of the datasets. about 100 trees, several of them now up to about 9 m tall. "e results of the seabird inventories collected during the main Jessie Beazley Reef (9.052°N 119.817°E) is submerged at high breeding season from April to June were compared with the datasets tide. At average tides, the exposed area—coral pebbles without from other months to estimate the total annual seabird populations. vegetation—is about 350 m!. Birds have also been recorded on Amos In addition to the counts of seabirds, changes in their habitat use Rock, North Atoll (8.850°N 119.900°E) and Black Rock, South were monitored, with habitat changes being analysed from data Atoll (8.804°N 119.845°E); both are large coralline boulder and collected on the number and status of bushes and trees.
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